The picture of Ase and Armand Garder was taken on the 17.May 2001 (Norway;s nationalday) Ase is wearing her bunad from Telemark.

Armand in 1997 picking cloudberries

Armand Lorentz Garder, born 1.february 1934, is an electrical engineer educated in Sweden in 1962. He worked as an electro consultant in Stockholm, Sweden.  Later, in 1969, he started his own company with 60 employees. In 1993 he became a fulltime farmer on our farm in Sylling.  Now he is building a house near Drammen, and they are moving there this summer, when Bjorn is taking over the farm.  Armand's greatest passion is hunting. He has been on two trips to Canada, and his merits there is a Grizzly Bear, two Black Bears, a wolf, and a big moose, 650 kg.  In Norway he has shot about numerous Norwegian elk's, wild Reindeer and deer.